Cataloging the 1811-1812 New Madrid, central U.S., earthquake sequence

Seismological Research Letters

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1045-1053

  Hough, Susan E ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 73849104331     PISSN: 08950695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/gssrl.80.6.1045     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Armbruster, J., and L. Seeber (1992). NCEER-91 Earthquake Catalog for the Eastern United States. National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, State University of New York at Buffalo.
2. Atkinson, G. M. and D. J. Wald (2007). "Did You Feel It?" intensity data: A surprisingly good measure of earthquake ground motion. Seismological Research Letters 78, 362-368.
3. Bakun, W. H., A. C. Johnston, and M. G. Hopper (2003). Estimating locations and magnitudes of earthquakes in eastern North America from modified Mercalli intensities. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 93, 190-202.
4. Bakun, W.H. and M. Hopper (2004a). Magnitudes and locations of the 1811-1812 New Madrid, Missouri and the 1886 Charleston, South Carolina earthquakes. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 94, 64-75.
5. Bakun, W. H. and M. Hopper (2004b). Catalog of Significant Historical Earthquakes in the Central United States. USGS Open File Report 2004-1086, 2004.
6. Burke, K. B. S. (2007). Determination of the times of historical earthquakes in the pre-standard time era. Seismological Research Letters 78, 334-336.
7. Cummings, S. (1847). The Western Pilot, 138-142.
8. Drake, D. (1815). Natural and Statistical View, or Picture of Cincinnati and the Miami County, Illustrated by Maps. Cincinnati, OH: Looker and Wallace.
9. Fuller, M. L. (1912). The New Madrid Earthquakes. USGS Bulletin 494.
10. Gutenberg, B., and C. F. Richter (1944). Frequency of earthquakes in California. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 34, 185-188.
11. Hermann, R. B., M. Withers, and H. Benz (2008). The April 18, 2008 Illinois earthquake: An ANSS monitoring success. Seismological Research Letters 79, 830-843.
12. Hough, S.E. (2001). Triggered earthquakes and the 1811-1812 New Madrid, central U.S. earthquake sequence. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 91, 1, 574-1, 581.
13. Hough, S. E. (2005). Remotely triggered earthquakes following moderate mainshocks (or, why California is not falling into the ocean). Seismological Research Letters 76, 58-66.
14. Hough, S. E. (2007). Remotely triggered earthquakes in diverse tectonic settings. In Continental Intraplate Earthquakes, ed. S. Stein and S. Mazzotti, 73-86. Washington, DC: Geological Society of America.
15. Hough, S. E., J. G. Armbruster, L. Seeber, and J. F. Hough (2000). On the modified Mercalli intensities and magnitudes of the 1811- 1812 New Madrid, central United States earthquakes. Journal of Geophysical Research 105, 23, 839-23, 864.
16. Hough, S. E., R. Bilham, K. Mueller, W. Stephenson, R. Williams, and J. Odum (2005). Wagon loads of sand blows in White County, Illinois. Seismological Research Letters 76, 373-386.
17. Hough, S. E. and H. Kanamori (2002). Source properties of earthquakes near the Salton Sea triggered by the 10/16/1999 M 7.1 Hector Mine earthquake. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 92, 1, 281-1, 289.
18. Hough, S. E. and S. Martin (2002). Magnitude estimates of two large aftershocks of the 16 December 1811 New Madrid earthquake. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 92, 3, 259-3, 268.
19. Hough, S. E., L. Seeber, and J. G. Armbruster (2003). Intraplate triggered earthquakes: Observations and interpretation. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 93, 2, 212-2, 221.
20. Johnston, A. C. (1996a). Seismic moment assessment of earthquakes in stable continental regions. I. Instrumental seismicity. Geophysical Journal International 124, 381-414.
21. Johnston, A. C. (1996b). Seismic moment assessment of earthquakes in stable continental regions III, New Madrid 1811-1812, Charleston 1886, and Lisbon 1755. Geophysical Journal International 126, 314-344.
22. McMurtrie, H. (1819). Sketches of Louisville and Its Environs; Including, among a Great Miscellaneous Matter, a Florula Louisvillensis; or, a Catalogue of Nearly 400 Genera and 600 Species of Plants, that Grow in the Vicinity of the Town, Exhibiting Their Generic, Specific, and Vulgar English Names. S. Penn, Jun. Main-street, Louisville.
23. Mitchill, S. L. (1815). A detailed narrative of the earthquakes which occurred on the 16th day of December, 1811. Transactions of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New York 1, 281-307.
24. Mueller, K., S. E. Hough, and R. Bilham (2004). Analysing the 1811-1812 New Madrid earthquakes with recent instrumentally recorded aftershocks. Nature 429, 284-288.
25. Nuttli, O. W. (1973). The Mississippi Valley earthquakes of 1811 and 1812: Intensities, ground motion, and magnitudes. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 63, 227-248.
26. Peng, Z., J. E. Vidale, M. Ishii, and A. Helmsetter (2007). Seismicity rate immediately before and after main shock rupture from highfrequency waveforms in Japan. Journal of Geophysical Research 112; doi: 10.1029/2006JB004386. (Pubitemid 47386347)
27. Penick, J. L. Jr. (1981). The New Madrid Earthquakes. Rev. ed. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press.
28. Richter, C. F. (1955). Unpublished notes, box 7.8, papers of Charles F. Richter, 1939-1984. California Institute of Technology Archives, Pasadena.
29. Street, R. (1982). A contribution to the documentation of the 1811-1812 Mississippi Valley earthquake sequence. Earthquake Notes 53, 39-52.
30. Street, R. (1984). The Historical Seismicity of the Central United States: 1811-1928. Final Report, contract 14-08-0001-21251, appendix A. Washington, DC: U.S. Geological Survey, 316 pps.
31. Velasco, A. A., S. Hernandez, T. Parsons, and K. Pankow (2008). Global ubiquity of dynamic earthquake triggering. Nature Geoscience 1, 375-379; doi: 10.1038/ngeo204.
32. Wessel, P., and W. H. F. Smith (1991). Free software helps map and display data. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 72, 441, 445.